Musical ring



(No Model.)

L. D. GERWIG.

' MUSICAL RING. v No. 498,008. Patented May 23, 1893.

LeurisZZ Geru z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS D. GERWIG, OF POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

MUSICAL RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.498,008, dated May 23, 1893.

Application filed May 31, 1892. Serial No.435,048. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS D. GERWIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Musical Ring, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to musical toys, made in the form of a ring, and consists of the construction and arrangements of the parts thereof as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of this invention is to provide a suitable substitute for a trumpet or horn for the use of children, which is adapted to be Worn on the finger as a ring, or it may be supplied with a whistle, and avoids serious accidents consequent upon children falling with horns or trumpets in their months, or

it may be used by elder persons as a device.

for teasing or twitting parties who relate antiquated jokes or stories.

In the drawingsw Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device witha musical attachment simulating a horn or trumpet. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig.

1, showing the device supplied with a whistle.

Similarnumerals of reference are employed toindicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 represents a band or circlet which is con structed of suitable material but preferably metal of either a base or fine nature, and having the ends thereof turned outward or divergent to form arms 2, which are secured to a head 3, which may be made to simulate the setting of a ring and embodying, as shown in Figs. Land 2, a reed 4, and adapted to represent a trumpet or horn when blown by the month. As shown in Fig. 3 however, a Whistle may be equally well employed. The upper side of the head 3 is open so as to give free ingress of the air thereinto, and is adapted to be placed in the mouth, as will be readily seen. This opening of the head is continued on the under side thereof for purposes which will be readily understood. It will be seen that the arms 2 elevate the position of the head supported thereby, and thereby conveniently position the same for engagement with the lips or mouth.

The form of device herein set forth prevents serious accidents or injuries to children as they can use the toy with perfect safety,iu view of the fact that in case of falling, and being carried by one of the hands, it will be a natural sequence the hands will be thrown outward to ward off injury, and thereby remove the toy from the lips, if the latter is in use at the time of falling. But by the use of an ordinary form of horn or trumpet, serious injury is often caused by the same being forced into the mouth and throat injuring the several organs by striking the floor or other object when the children fall, with said devices in their mouths.

Considerable amusement can be gained from the use of the device by older persons in employin g the same to tease or twit persons telling antiquated stories or jokes, and as the device is concealed in the form of a ring, it cannot bereadily detected,and the result will be ver amusing.

The device may be employed for other purposes, as may be found desirable, and the structure of the same might be slightly varied without in the least departing from the nature and spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is As an improved article of manufacture, a musical toy consisting of a hand ring having the two ends thereof drawn closely together and then extended outward and upward in the form of divergentarmssupportingahead at the upper terminations thereof embodying a musical instrument, said ring being expansible to fit different sized fingers, and the said arms being of such length as to support the head at a distance from the ring for the purpose of convenient engagement with the lips, the divergent arms connected to the under side at the head in the manner set forth providing for the free passage of air therethrough for the operation of the musical instrument, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS D. GERWIG.

Witnesses:

H. B. CLAY, WILLIAM W. ZOLLERS. 

